With a hard-fought twelfth place in the GP of Austria, Dominique Aegerter gave NTS RW Racing GP four points. Bo Bendsneyder fared less well in the first race at the Red Bull Ring. He finished in 22nd place.
The Moto2 race was a hectic race to say the least. Aegerter got off to a good start from 24th place and was able to advance to eighteenth place when the race had to be halted in the fourth lap due to a mega crash by Enea Bastianini that also knocked Edgar Pons, Hafizh Syahrin and Andi Farid Izdihar out of the race. Aegerter was very lucky that flying debris narrowly missed him.
For the restart of a race of thirteen more laps, the passage of the third lap applied, which meant that the Swiss could start from nineteenth place. For Bo Bendsneyder that meant a start from 25th place. Aegerter got away well again and even managed to reach tenth place. In a tough fight in a group with Joe Roberts, Lorenzo Baldassarri and Somkiat Chantra, he eventually took twelfth place: one position lower than the best result for NTS RW Racing GP so far (Bendsneyder’s eleventh place in Qatar).
Bendsneyder had a hard time a lot further back in a lonely race, in which he could not make a fist. The Dutchman finished 22nd, 29.300 behind race winner Jorge Martin.
Bo Bendsneyder: “Well… That was really difficult. I never had the right feeling. After FP1 we lost our way. We just didn’t know what to do anymore. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that easy to throw in Dominique’s set-up and ride the same pace. The race itself didn’t really help either, with that crash and the restart. Hopefully the data will help us pick up the thread for next weekend and achieve better results, because this makes no one happy.”
Race results:
| Pos | Rider | Team | Time / Gap |
| 1 | Jorge MARTIN | Red Bull KTM Ajo | 19’24.723 |
| 2 | Luca MARINI | SKY Racing Team VR46 | 2.195 |
| 3 | Marcel SCHROTTER | Liqui Moly Intact GP | 4.782 |
| 4 | Sam LOWES | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | 7.249 |
| 5 | Xavi VIERGE | Petronas Sprinta Racing | 7.325 |
| 6 | Marco BEZZECCHI | SKY Racing Team VR46 | 7.771 |
| 7 | Thomas LUTHI | Liqui Moly Intact GP | 9.405 |
| 8 | Augusto FERNANDEZ | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | 9.598 |
| 9 | Aron CANET | Inde Aspar Team | 10.023 |
| 10 | Joe ROBERTS | Tennor American Racing | 10.890 |
| 11 | Lorenzo BALDASSARRI | Flexbox HP 40 | 11.170 |
| 12 | Dominique AEGERTER | NTS RW Racing GP | 11.803 |
| 13 | Somkiat CHANTRA | IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia | 13.002 |
| 14 | Jake DIXON | Petronas Sprinta Racing | 13.385 |
| 15 | Hector GARZO | Flexbox HP 40 | 15.865 |
| 16 | Nicolò BULEGA | Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 | 15.897 |
| 17 | Stefano MANZI | MV Agusta Forward Racing | 15.913 |
| 18 | Marcos RAMIREZ | Tennor American Racing | 16.222 |
| 19 | Lorenzo DALLA PORTA | Italtrans Racing Team | 18.830 |
| 20 | Simone CORSI | MV Agusta Forward Racing | 22.614 |
| 21 | Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO | Beta Tools Speed Up | 25.079 |
| 22 | Bo BENDSNEYDER | NTS RW Racing GP | 29.300 |
| 23 | Kasma DANIEL | Onexox TKKR SAG Team | 36.648 |
| Not Classified | |||
| Remy GARDNER | Onexox TKKR SAG Team | 9 Laps | |
| Tetsuta NAGASHIMA | Red Bull KTM Ajo | 10 Laps | |
| Jorge NAVARRO | Beta Tools Speed Up | 0 Lap | |
| Enea BASTIANINI | Italtrans Racing Team | 0 Lap | |
| Hafizh SYAHRIN | Inde Aspar Team | 0 Lap | |
| Edgar PONS | Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 | 0 Lap | |
| Andi Farid IZDIHAR | IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia | 0 Lap |
Source: motogp.com, rwracinggp.com
